School Libraries Work!
School Libraries Work! 2006 Powerful Report Children’s literature expert Terry Young has created a powerful tool for all of us: School Libraries Work! 2006. This 2006 updated report is available at:...
View ArticleVulture View
Vulture View, a Theodor Geisel Honor Book, American Library Association. I am so excited about this book! It explores the life of vultures, surely some of the most underappreciated cleaners in the...
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Vulture View, my long-awaited book with Steve Jenkins, has just been released by Holt. Yippee! Look for a review of it in the October 15th issue of Booklist. For those of you that want to learn more...
View ArticleGreat Read, Great Lesson
Tamora Pierce: Great Read, Great Lesson I am a huge fan of Tamora Pierce’s books, especially her two series, “The Magic Circle” and “The Circle Opens.” The Circle Opens is wonderful because it shows...
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It’s My City Art Activity
Students at Harrison, in South Bend, map their community: Students near Columbus, OH, map their neighborhood after reading It’s My City. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float:...
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Home At Last activity roundup
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View ArticleFor Norma Fox Mazer, Mrs. Paouris, and More
You can never make the list long enough, so I’ll just put down a few for today. For Norma Fox Mazer, who told me, “A novel is not an intellectual Lose Weight Exercise but an emotional journey.” For my...
View ArticleExploring Earth’s Biomes series
Desert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2825-0 Temperate Deciduous Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2828-5 Tropical Rain Forest . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2826-9 Coral Reef ....
View ArticleEndangered Birds of North America
To save endangered whooping cranes, people will do some seemingly zany things. in Wisconsin, a woman dresses up in a whooping crane costume.
View ArticlePut On Some Antlers And Walk Like a Moose
Do you know a raccoon by its smell? A deer by its tracks? The difference between the call of a tree frog and the call of a bird? To find animals, many field scientists work like detectives, looking for...
View ArticleThe Seven Continents series
Middle school students can learn the ecology of each continent in depth with this series of books: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Africa . . . . . . . ....
View ArticleEl Niño and La Niña: Weather in the Headlines
Floods. Droughts. Heavy snow storms. Dying coral reefs. Dry deserts that suddenly bloom. In 1997 and 1998, dramatic weather events and weather-related events were in the headlines almost every day.
View ArticleTropical Rain Forest, Scholastic Science Readers
Frogs chirp. Parrots screech. Insects click. A piece of bark falls. You look up at a tree that is taller than a ten-story building. Howler monkeys hoot and roar.
View ArticleSecrets of Sound: Studying the Calls and Songs of Whales, Elephants, and Birds
...on a ship off Hawaii, Christopher Clark lowers a special microphone into the ocean to listen to whales singing. He also analyzes secret recordings from hundreds of ocean microphones the navy uses to...
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Slowest Book Ever
“The Antidote for a Hurried Childhood” was what the Huffington Post called my middle grade nonfiction book, The Slowest Book Ever (Boyds Mills Press, release in April, 2016) in a sneak peek article by...
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Being Frog
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Being Frog hops into stores Feb 2, 2020! Read the Kirkus starred review or the Publisher’s Weekly starred review or the starred review...
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